When I look around today I see an interesting polarization of the population. Obesity is on the rise, as we all know and hear about all the time, but it seems like the number of people interested in ... Continue Reading
Getting Started With Juicing: What You Need to Know
Do you juice? If not, maybe you should. To clarify right off the bat, this article isn’t going to be about steroids, Jose Canseco, or the Miami Biogenesis Clinic. I’m talking about including raw, ... Continue Reading
Unconventional Nutrition Advice From Sally Fallon of the Weston A. Price Foundation
Athletes talk a lot about macronutrients. From the ideal macronutrient ratio to the role of protein in muscle development, you hear a lot about the best way to eat to gain muscle, avoid fatigue, and ... Continue Reading
Clear as Milk: The Pros and Cons of Milk Consumption
Depending on who you ask, a gallon of milk a day will either turn you into a muscle bound machine or make you fat along with having some serious sinus congestion and acne. There’s a lot of information out ... Continue Reading
How Restricting Calories and Nutrients Affects Your Health
Too often nutritionists, coaches, and athletes can get caught up in a nutrient focus. They may be so focused on getting some nutrient, like protein, that they will only eat high-protein foods at the cost ... Continue Reading
Paleo Sweets: They Might Be “Healthy” But They Still Might Be a Bad Idea
Google the words paleo and dessert and your screen will instantly be filled with chocolately, coconutty deliciousness that I’m pretty sure was not appearing on the plates (or spears) of our cavemen ... Continue Reading
Post-Workout Nutrition: 10 Articles To Help You Fuel Your Training
When it comes to making your workouts effective, timing your nutrient intake matters. Here are ten articles to help you navigate the complex world of post-workout nutrition, covering everything from the ... Continue Reading
A Comparison of Carb Back-Loading and the Renegade Diet
It was 3:54pm. The dim fluorescent lights of Whole Foods bathed me in their gloomy light. People walked past, acting as if they hadn’t noticed my despair and torment. I sat, knees drawn into my chest, ... Continue Reading
Creatine: Timing May Make a Difference
Nutrient timing is by far one of the most discussed aspects of nutrition for athletics. I would say I am asked about thewhen of nutrients nearly as often as the what, and creatine is no exception to this ... Continue Reading
The ABCs of Vitamins: Vitamin B9 (Folate or Folic Acid)
This week, in part eight of my series on the ins and outs of vitamins, we will look at the neural tube developing superstar known as vitamin B9. What Does Vitamin B9 (Folate or Folic Acid) ... Continue Reading
Your Diet Can Improve Your Brain Power
Most of us spend a lot of our time thinking about how our training and diet affect our muscle power, but for many of us brain power is important too. I've always been interested in the idea of a ... Continue Reading
The Effects of the Paleo Diet on Diabetes and Satiety
As the paleo diet grows in popularity, we will see more and more clinical use of the diet as a treatment for disease. Any diet that claims to be superior for health will ultimately have to put its ... Continue Reading
Is Gluten Free for Everyone?
Gluten is a protein found in products made from wheat and other grains. In today’s food industry, gluten finds its way into practically everything. If you are eating something that tastes thick or chewy, ... Continue Reading
What Prohibition and the War on Drugs Teach Us About Our Nation’s Battle of the Bulge
The United States is losing the war on obesity, which is news to exactly no one. Despite the efforts of our federal government and corporate America, the trend of our expanding girth continues. Despite the ... Continue Reading
How Healthy Is Milk, Really? Science Is Divided
Milk is rapidly becoming the food you hear about every other month in a new study. One month it's good for you and the next it's bad for you. Of course, reporting the science news like this just makes ... Continue Reading
Vitamin D: Is Sunlight Enough?
If you get some sun each day then you probably don’t need to supplement vitamin D, right? Wrong, says a forthcoming study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. Vitamin D affects your ... Continue Reading
Do I Need to Take Vitamin B12 Shots?
Chances are, if you see a physician regularly or are into preventative health, you’ve heard of or even had a vitamin B12 injection or an injection with a mixture of B vitamins and other things like ... Continue Reading
PEG Creatine Effective in Small Doses Without Exercise
Creatine is one of my favorite supplements to recommend to athletes. If your diet is dialed in, you don’t really need protein supplements or vitamins. In fact, outside of convenience, most supplements ... Continue Reading
The ABCs of Vitamins: Vitamin B7 (Biotin)
This week, in part seven of my series on the ins and outs of vitamins, we will look at the cosmetically added ingredient in many hair and nail products known as vitamin B7 or biotin. What Does Vitamin ... Continue Reading
How Fruits, Veggies, and a Lack of Seasons Contribute to Overeating
I’ve recently moved from a sub-tropical climate to a place known for snow sports, so you’d expect the food available to me would have changed significantly right? Well, surprisingly, not really. Thanks to ... Continue Reading
Does Technique Suffer on a Low-Carb Diet?
We've heard a lot about the role of carbohydrates in sports nutrition lately. There has been much ado regarding the waning importance of carbohydrates in a post-workout golden ratio with protein, the use ... Continue Reading
An Athlete’s Guide to Hydration: When, What, and How Much
We have been having some really hot weather recently in the United Kingdom. The heat generated some discussion amongst members at my local cycling club about what one should do whilst out riding or ... Continue Reading
Prolonged Exercise? Sip on Some Carbs
Do you ever exercise for one, two, or even three hours at a time? If so, then you can benefit from drinking carbohydrates while you exercise. An upcoming study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning ... Continue Reading
The Real Facts on Prostate Cancer and Omega-3s
You might have heard about the new study on omega-3 fatty acids - you know, the type pretty much everyone has recommended since we were all kids. Even our parents and some of their parents took cod liver ... Continue Reading
